Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-10-28
GENERAL NOTES.


A POWERFUL flow of NATURAL gas was
struck at Auburn, Ind, at depth of
1867 feet.
II is said the Grand Jury at Cincinnati
will find q basketful of indictments
against the Fidelity Bank-wreckers.
ATTORNEY GENERAL HUNT is of the
opinion that the record in the Anarchist
case does not involve any federal ques-
tion.
Two hundred persons are down with
typhoid fever in the village of Iron Noun
tain, in the Michigan peninsula.
TIMETAY Bros, dealers in dry goods at
Nashville, Tenn, have assigned. Their
liabilities are about 100000.
WILLIAM WALKER, importer of dress
trimmings at New York, failed Wednes-
day for e125,O0O, due principally to
Earopean firms.
THE Sugar Trust in New York has ad-
vanced granulated sugar three-eighths of
a cent per pound and soft sugars about
one-quarter.
THE carriage builders concluded their
convention at Washington Thursday, and
selected Columbus, Ohio, as the next
place of meeting.
IL Is 5bdlSu lHdb DdEbIey CdH pDcll, Jne
playwright, will soon be released from
the Middletown Asylum. He is recover
ing his reason.
THE Roquil district on the island of
Cuba is being overfowed by flowing
springs which have mysteriously ap-
peared recently.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers has paid over two millions of dol
lars to the widows and orphans of de-
ceased members since the birth of the or
ganization.
THOMAS MAST, the cartoonist, has signed
a contract for a four months tour of
California and the Western states and
Territories for a series of illustrated
lectures, beginning at Denver, Col.
ALL the Canadian oatmeal millers have
formed a "trust to obtain a fixed price
for meal and limit the production
Four hundred miles from New York an
eagle was captured at sea by the steam
ship Jersey City.
The Georgia Legislature adjourned
Thursday night. None of the public
measures discussed were adopted.
JOHN TAYLOR, President of the Nat
ional Temp erauce League of Great Brit
ain, was given a reception at New York,
PETROLEUM has been struck at Hutchin-
son, Kan, at distance of 500 feet. Only
week or two ago large deposits Of salt
were discovered in that locality.
THx articles leasing the Oregon Navi-
cation Company to the Northern Pacific
and Union Pacific jointly, have been
signed the latter companies guarantee
ing per cent. per annum on the Navi-
CATION Company's stock.
Dr.. ROBERT G. MYLEs, young Missis-
.ippian, is the physician who prepared
'he delicate electrical instrument used so
| successfully at the London operation on
the Crown Princes throat.
FIVE thousand shoemakers abandoned
| their benches at Philadelphia, and the
proprietors of twenty -four factories paid
off their hands, the employers turning
| the strike into lockout.
| EIGHTY Y-FIvE per cent. of the produc-
| ing capacity of Kentucky, have signde an
agreement not to make whisky during the
distilling season ending July, 1888. AS
result, an advance in prices is expected.
JESUIT father, the Rev. r. 1. Holland,
! professor of ethics in Maryland College,
| has written book entitled, "Ownership
and Natural Right" in reply to Henry
Georges progress and Poverty"
WALTER MURRAY GIBSON, ex-premier of
! the Hawaiian Kingdom, is seriously i'll at
st. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco. He
| had tumor removed from his face a few
days ago.
GUsTAvE WAoHr, a socialist in New
| York, committed suicide the other day in
q bath-tub. Ten wounds, inflicted with
penknife, were found upon his body in
the neighborhood of the heart.
Hon. THOMAS G. MANNING, late United
States Minister to Mexico, died in New
York Oct. II. Judge Manning has for
many years been prominent lawyer and
jurist of New Orleans.
GREAT improvement has been made OF
late years in the tools usec for boring
tunnels. In one month, recently 430 feet
were bored in the Cascade tunnel il
Washington territory, which is the great
est distance ever plished in single
! month in tunneling.
| PoTAToRs are so scarce in Maine this
yesr that farmers will be compelled to
send to western states for enough to plant
their next years crop. 1t is said that
two men can dig all day in potato field
and obtain only nine bushels, and many
of these are too small for use.
QUEEN VICTORIA has the largest book
! ever bound 1t measure. eighteen inches
across the back, and weighs over thirty
pounds. 1t is the volume with the iubi-
lee addresses of congratulstion from the
| Habitations of the Primrose League.
INTELLIGENT natives of Japan prophesy
that IN ten years that country will become
| q Christian state There are now in Jap
an nearly 100 native preachers and IL
Christian theological schools, with more
than los pupils. Ten thousand children
have been gathered into Sunday schools,
and there are 200 churches, a fourth of
them self-supporting.
The old family bible that belonged 70
Mary, the mother of Washington is
still in existence, and is kept in branch
of the Washington family in Virginia.
1t contains the family register, record
ing the birth of George Washington,
Feb. %, 1872. The binding has a cover
of cloth woven by the hands of his moth
er.